My guess is "Buy it sooner"... or when someone does put it up at an overprice, people fling the money at them.
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I think a lot of people either like to buy round numbers/max levels of things or just check the highest level available because there tends to not be a great deal of supply at lower levels.
Personally, I almost always check the prices on stuff 1-2 levels below the max for a given item since its often much cheaper. A given IO could cost 10-20m less at 49 and only do fractions of a % less enhancement, which is moot given the enhancement values of the entire set.
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I'm with Silas. There are two easy to check points: max level, and min level. More people seem to check the max level than the min level, because for most goods, even though the min level may have a high price, the transaction rate is usually a lot lower than max level.
Checking everything in between for a bargain takes time. If we've learned anything from the Market Forum, it should be that people are impatient, and they fuel their impatience with Inf.
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It's stuff like this that makes me wish the market interface had an option to bid for an item in a level range, instead of a specific level.
Either that or just toss out all the IO's at levels that are not divisible by 5, like commons. There's just too much clutter.
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Originally Posted by Quasadu
It's stuff like this that makes me wish the market interface had an option to bid for an item in a level range, instead of a specific level.
Either that or just toss out all the IO's at levels that are not divisible by 5, like commons. There's just too much clutter. |
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Achilles Heel: Chance for Resistance Debuff. This is a nice little IO proc. If it goes off, you reduce your enemy's resistance by 20%. I have two slotted on Mouse Police -- one in Gambler's Cut, one in Golden Dragonfly. I happen to think it's a pretty spiffy little IO.
I liked it so much that after I picked up a couple for Organica last Fall, I decided I should keep a few extras on hand just in case I need some in the future. I got mine for Mouse and Organica simply by putting in lowball bids of something like 6-7 million and waiting. So I put in a new lowball bid. And it sat there. And sat there. After several months, I upped my bid to more than 9 million... and it still sat there.
It seems, between the time I bought these for Mouse and Organica, and now, these things have become quite a bit more popular. The set tops out at level 20, and the level 20 proc goes for 30 to 60 million -- for the recipe! But wait! It's only a proc! I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but a level 20 proc will reduce your enemy's resistance by 20%, and a level twelve proc will do the same thing! So why does it have to be level 20?
I admit, I was guilty of the same thing -- I'd been bidding on the level 20 IO. In theory there are many more of them for sale, and my lowball bids had worked well in the past, and also it wasn't something I really needed immediately, so I left my bids up and didn't worry about it. It took me a very long time to readjust my thinking. But two weeks ago I put in bids for 4 of the procs at level 19, and 4 at level 18, at a bid of 10,100,000.
In two weeks all 8 bids filled. ^_^ I now have 8 of these things in storage should I ever need them.
But I still have to wonder: what does the level 20 proc get me that the level 19 proc doesn't, that makes it worth 60 million instead of 10 million? It isn't even a "buy it nao" price, because there often aren't any for sale even at level 20. I think people just bid the highest level out of reflex, or don't even understand that there's no actual difference in how the different levels of the proc work.
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